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Verizon has acknowledged a wireless services outage in the U.S. Wednesday afternoon and stated that its engineers are working to fix the problem.
Tens of thousands of people — more than 180,000 at one point — across the United States reported issues using Verizon Wednesday. Verizon said it was aware of an issue impacting wireless voice and data services for some customers.
Hundreds of thousands of Verizon cell phone users are without service on Wednesday afternoon, the company said. As of 1 p.m. DownDetector.com had compiled 460,000 user-generated reports, indicating widespread failure of mobile voice and data services. Most of those affected appeared to be in the eastern half of the U.S.
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